# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at BELL HELICOPTER
> OSHA SIR `2022053863` · 5/4/2022 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** BELL HELICOPTER
- **Location:** 3255 Bell Helicopter Blvd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76118
- **NAICS:** 336411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a portable ladder reach an electronic panel on the opener mechanism. The employee lost balance and raised his arm overhead to stabilizing himself and his middle finger got caught between the opener mechanism's roller chain and a gear. The employee sustained injury to their middle finger.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*